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Definition of Brickyards
1. brickyard [n] - See also: brickyard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brickyards
Literary usage of Brickyards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arnold's Guide for Business Corporations in the State of New York by New York (State) (1907)
"Hours of labor in brickyards.—Ten hours, exclusive of the necessary time for
meals, shall constitute a legal day's work in the making of brick in brickyards ..."
2. Final Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1904)
"General view of brickyards along the river at Little Ferry, Bergen county, showing
sheds along the water front. Fig. 2. ..."
3. Note-book of an Amateur Geologist by John Edward Lee (1881)
"This bed principally consists of a dark blue clay adapted to the brickyards ;
but occasionally beds of shale are met with, called by the brickmakers ' dice ..."
4. Out-doors at Idlewild; Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1855)
"Immense Freshets-Islands in Solution-Curious glides-brickyards along the Hudson-Irish
Laborers, and the Contrast between them and Native-Born Country ..."
5. Guide to the Geology of London and the Neighbourhood: (an Explanation of the by William J. Whitaker (1875)
"brickyards eastward of (flint implements have been found in gravel at Acton) ...
brickyards (a flint implement has been found here) - Stoke Newington. ..."
6. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1916)
"That That there are and were, at the time of the adoption of the ordinance, in
other districts of the city thickly built up with resi- i- dences brickyards ..."
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